Tag: london
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2012: A year of “foreign” travels
As the end of 2012 is drawing close, we look back to some of the places we visited this year. Let’s start with those that were outside of Switzerland. We will follow up with a second post of the trips we made in 2012 within Switzerland. Click to jump to the posts – there are…
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London Chinatown Restaurants – Four Seasons and Plum Valley
One night while we were in London, we met a few friends for dinner in Chinatown. In my experience, there are several typical kinds of restaurants in the chinatowns of the world. First, there are those that provide a quick and inexpensive soup noodle lunch or single-plate dinner and pay no attention to decor or…
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Roganic, London
Roganic is a restaurant by Simon Rogan in Marylebone, London. He is known for the innovative food served in his restaurant L’Enclume situated in the faraway Lake District in northwest England. The restaurant is referred to as “pop-up” in the press and it is accordingly sparsely decorated as it only has a 2-year lease. The…
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Z Hotel Victoria and the Blakemore in London
For our trip to see the 2012 Olympics Games in London, we left hotel arrangements till the last minute. At the time, there were news that the room prices were dropping because people were scared away from Central London due to the sky-high rates. But, the choicest hotels were all gone and what was left…
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Rough Trade’s East End Flagship Store
I(Chris) have not visited London for many years, and while visiting during the Olympics, we heard a lot about the Spitalfields markets. So one morning we decided to check it out. This area of East London felt quite different from what I was expecting. The Spitalfields markets contain a new and an old section. We…
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London 2012: Olympics Diving
This is probably the last post about a specific Olympic sport that we saw in London. We have so far written about badminton, 100m sprint, and track cycling. The Aquatic Center was designed by Zaha Hadid who described the concept at her site: A concept inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating…